Current anti-epidemic measures

Updat­ed 7th April 2021

The state of emer­gency ends on Mon­day 12th April. This means that some anti-epi­dem­ic mea­sures will be loos­en­ing.

  • End of trav­el ban between dis­tricts.
  • No more night cur­few.
  • Pris­ons vis­its will be pos­si­ble again.

Open­ing of select­ed shops and ser­vices:

  • sta­tionery, shops with chil­dren’s shoes and clothes, shops of rev­er­en­tial goods and car parts shops
  • lock­smithing, laun­dries, dry clean­ers and repair shops for house­hold appli­ances
  • farm­ers mar­kets
  • zoo­log­i­cal and botan­i­cal gar­dens

Edu­ca­tion:

  • 1st grade of ele­men­tary schools — renew­al of pres­ence teach­ing (alter­nat­ing by weeks)
  • Spe­cial schools — renew­al of pres­ence teach­ing
  • Art schools and lan­guage schools — pres­ence teach­ing in the form of 1 pupil — 1 teacher
  • Kinder­gartens — the return of preschool­ers to Kinder­garten’s class­rooms

Updat­ed 22nd March 2021

The anti-epi­dem­ic mea­sures effec­tive from 1st March is still valid until the end of the state of emer­gency, 28th march 2021. The gov­ern­ment intro­duced only minor changes: 

  • Leisure activ­i­ties are allowed to do in the whole ter­ri­to­ry of the dis­trict. 
  • Par­ents can now leave the dis­trict of res­i­dence to meet their minor chil­dren.
  • Sports­men, who keep a dis­tance of 2 meters do not have to wear a face-mask in the urban area of the city.
  • You can vis­it the elder­ly home if you are neg­a­tive­ly test­ed for coro­n­avirus, healthy and had covid-19 in the last 90 days, or if you have already received both dos­es of covid-19 vac­ci­na­tion.
  • Employ­ers are oblig­ed to test the col­lec­tives of 10 or more employ­ees reg­u­lar­ly.

Updat­ed 28th Feb­ru­ary 2021

The gov­ern­ment has declared a new state of emer­gency on 28th Feb­ru­ary (Find out more here). The anti-epi­dem­ic rules are being tight­ened from the 1st March (with some excep­tions):

  • It is manda­to­ry to wear a respirator/nano — face mask in places with a high­er con­cen­tra­tion of peo­ple.
    There is an oblig­a­tion to wear a sur­gi­cal face mask when mov­ing on the streets.
  • Restric­tions on free move­ment between dis­tricts. The dis­tricts Brno — venkov and Brno — měs­to are merged into one in this case.
  • Schools, kinder­gartens and chil­dren’s groups are closed.
  • Most stores must be closed. Only gro­cery stores, pet stores, phar­ma­cies, drug­stores, fuel stores, opti­cians, stores with news­pa­pers and tobac­co, gar­den­ing cen­tres, florists, tick­et stores, elec­tron­ics ser­vice, funer­al ser­vices, car wash­es, house­hold goods stores, com­post­ing and col­lec­tion yards, taxi ser­vices and psy­chodi­ag­nos­tic offices will remain open.

The mea­sures are valid until 21st March.

Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 24th 2021

From 25th Feb­ru­ary 2021 = new mea­sures in places where there are a lot of peo­ple!

The oblig­a­tion to wear:

  • Res­pi­ra­tor (FFP2, KN95),
  • nano-face mask,
  • or two sur­gi­cal face masks over each oth­er.

Where do I have to fol­low these rules?

  • in shops and ser­vices,
  • in med­ical facil­i­ties,
  • in social ser­vices facil­i­ties,
  • at inter­na­tion­al air­ports,
  • in pub­lic trans­port + on plat­forms and pub­lic trans­port wait­ing rooms,
  • in a car.

Self-made face masks will no longer be con­sid­ered suf­fi­cient pro­tec­tion!

The oblig­a­tion does not apply to:

  • chil­dren under 2 years (chil­dren aged 2 to 15 MUST wear at least 1 sur­gi­cal face­mask).

Oth­er oblig­a­tions:

  • From the begin­ning of March, it will be manda­to­ry to wear at least 1 sur­gi­cal face mask in all indoor areas and also out­door, if there are oth­er peo­ple near you.

Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 19th

The gov­ern­ment of the Czech Repub­lic announced some changes in a fight against the epi­dem­ic at a Friday´s press con­fer­ence. From the begin­ning of next week, it will be manda­to­ry to wear res­pi­ra­tors such as FFP2, KN95, nano-face­masks or two sur­gi­cal face­masks in places with a high­er con­cen­tra­tion of peo­ple (F.e.: shops, pub­lic trans­porta­tion). Self-made face masks will no longer be con­sid­ered suf­fi­cient pro­tec­tion. Vio­la­tions are sub­ject to fines. More details will be announced on Mon­day 22nd Feb­ru­ary.

Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 15th = EMERGENCY STATE*

FROM MONDAY, 15 Feb­ru­ary 2021: 

  • MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS = from 21:00 to 4:59 (excep­tions — trips to and from work, walk­ing dogs max. 500 meters from the place of res­i­dence)
  • Groups of 2 (except are house­hold mem­bers and col­leagues at work)

OPEN:

  • OFFICES = open accord­ing to open­ing hours
  • SHOPS = only for basic needs (food, phar­ma­cies, drug­stores, florists, opti­cians, hab­er­dash­ery, sta­tionery)
  • ACCOMMODATION SERVICES = only for peo­ple on busi­ness trips or on the way to see a doc­tor in anoth­er city (includ­ing their fam­i­ly mem­bers); + new­ly arrived for­eign­ers with the right to enter the coun­try, with­out oth­er res­i­dences in the Czech Repub­lic or peo­ple in ordered quar­an­tine or iso­la­tion

LIMITED:

  • HOSPITAL = ban on vis­its to patients in acute care beds
  • TRAVELLING = after return­ing to the Czech Repub­lic TEST (oth­er­wise depen­dent on restric­tions of des­ti­na­tion coun­tries)
  • Restau­rants, pubs, and cater­ing estab­lish­ments = dis­pens­ing win­dow only
  • Cul­ture (con­certs, the­ater, cin­e­ma…) — only with­out vis­i­tors
  • LIBRARIES = dis­pens­ing win­dows only

CLOSED:

  • Swim­ming pools, well­ness cen­ters, saunas, solar­i­ums and salt caves, zoo­log­i­cal and botan­i­cal gar­dens, muse­ums, gal­leries and cas­tles and chateaux.

BAN:

  • drink­ing alco­hol in pub­lic
  • sales of goods in mar­kets, mar­ket­places, and mobile estab­lish­ments

    *EMERGENCY STATE will take from 15th until 28th Feb­ru­ary 2021.

Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 12th

The Cham­ber of Deputies of the Czech Repub­lic did not approve the exten­sion of the state of emer­gency at yes­ter­day’s meet­ing. The state of emer­gency is there­fore valid only until Sun­day 14th Feb­ru­ary 2021. We appeal to our clients to con­tin­ue fol­low­ing hygiene mea­sures not only in our Cen­ter, to pre­vent the wors­en­ing of the pan­dem­ic sit­u­a­tion.

Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 2nd

With effect from 5th Feb­ru­ary 2021  changes the con­di­tions for the enter­ing of per­sons to the Czech Repub­lic. The new rules apply to the arrival of for­eign­ers as well as the return of Czech cit­i­zens and res­i­dents back to the Czech Repub­lic.

  • The dark red — high-risk — cat­e­go­ry of coun­tries is new­ly added to the colour table pre­pared by the MOI (below). The most strin­gent epi­demi­o­log­i­cal mea­sures will be applied to jour­neys from dark red coun­tries. This means the manda­to­ry sub­mis­sion of the first PCR test not old­er than 48 hours before entry and sub­se­quent­ly, the sec­ond PCR test tak­en in the Czech Repub­lic not ear­li­er than the fifth day after entry. Self-iso­la­tion is required until a sec­ond neg­a­tive test is sub­mit­ted.

  • In case you are com­ing from orange and red coun­tries, the oblig­a­tion to sub­mit an anti­gen or PCR test (not old­er than 48 hours) will be required before entry. In the case of red coun­tries, the per­son must under­go a sec­ond PCR test tak­en in the Czech Repub­lic. Self-iso­la­tion is required until a sec­ond neg­a­tive test is sub­mit­ted.

  • When trav­el­ling from all these cat­e­gories of coun­tries, it is also oblig­a­tory to fill in the elec­tron­ic “Arrival Form”. The com­ple­tion of the form will be checked togeth­er with the test upon entry into the Czech Repub­lic.

  • From the 31st Jan­u­ary 2021, are also pro­hib­it­ed trav­els to the Czech Repub­lic for oth­er rea­sons than strict­ly nec­es­sary.

Cat­e­gories of coun­tries (2nd  Feb­ru­ary 2021):

Green Coun­tries: Aus­tralia, Repub­lic of Korea, New Zealand, Sin­ga­pore, Thai­land, Vat­i­can

Orange coun­tries: Fin­land, Greece, Ice­land, Nor­way

Red coun­tries: Bel­gium, Bul­gar­ia, Croa­t­ia, Den­mark, France, Italy, Cyprus, Liecht­en­stein, Lux­em­bourg, Hun­gary, Mal­ta, Nether­lands, Poland, Aus­tria, Roma­nia, Ger­many, Swe­den, Switzer­land, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands

Dark red coun­tries: All oth­er coun­tries not list­ed in one of the pre­vi­ous cat­e­gories.

Source: www.mvcr.cz/clanek/s‑ucinnosti-od-patku-5-unora-2021-se-meni-podminky-pro-vstup-osob-do-ceske-republiky

Updat­ed Jan­u­ary 22nd

State of emergency extend­ed until Feb­ru­ary 14, 2021.

From 19 Jan­u­ary 2021, sta­tionery stores, chil­dren’s shoe stores and chil­dren’s cloth­ing stores may reopen.

Updat­ed Decem­ber 23rd
State of emergency extend­ed until Jan­u­ary 22, 2021.

With effect from 27 Decem­ber 2020, the Czech Repub­lic will again be at lev­el 5 of the PES sys­tem (“anti-epi­dem­ic sys­tem”).

  • GATHERING — max. 2 per­sons (funer­als, wed­dings, and ser­vices up to 15 per­sons)
  • No cur­few from 21:00 in the evening — 5:00 in the morn­ing (no excep­tions)
  • EDUCATION = dis­tance learn­ing (excep­tions: kinder­gartens, 1st and 2nd grade of pri­ma­ry schools, spe­cial schools + spe­cif­ic cas­es)
  • SHOPPING — 1 per­son at 15m², cov­ered face, and nose, 2m spac­ing, OPEN on Sun­day
  • Clo­sure of shops and restric­tions on ser­vices that do not sell basic neces­si­ties or do not pro­vide online order­ing of goods.

Still valid:

- NO VISITS in med­ical facil­i­ties
— Authorities/Offices — lim­i­ta­tion of open­ing hours only to the nec­es­sary time
— SPORT — indoor sports ground CLOSED (out­door sports only up to 2 peo­ple)
— CULTURAL EVENTS – PROHIBITION
— RESTAURANT — only dis­pens­ing win­dow + PROHIBITION of food or alco­hol con­sump­tion in pub­lic areas

 

Updat­ed Decem­ber 16th

With effect from Decem­ber 18th:

  • All restau­rants, bars, clubs and pubs have to be closed. The take­away win­dows are allowed and they must close at 23:00.
  • Going out dur­ing night­time hours between 23:00 – 04:59 is banned.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of accom­mo­da­tion of per­sons in hotels, board­ing hous­es and oth­er accom­mo­da­tion facil­i­ties for the pur­pose of tourism.
  • All indoor sports play­grounds must be closed. It is pos­si­ble to play out­door sports for a max­i­mum of 6 peo­ple.
  • The Christ­mas hol­i­days for pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary school pupils will start on 21st Decem­ber 2020.

Updat­ed Decem­ber 10th

The state of emer­gency is extend­ed until Decem­ber 23rd 2020.

With effect from Decem­ber 9th, 2020:

  • All restau­rants may be open only from 06:00 until 20:00
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of drink­ing alco­hol in pub­lic.

Updat­ed Novem­ber 30th

With effect from Decem­ber 3rd, the Czech Repub­lic will move from the fourth lev­el to the third lev­el in the PES anti-epi­dem­ic sys­tem. This will fur­ther relax the cur­rent mea­sures.

With effect from Decem­ber 3rd, 2020:

  • All stores and ser­vices may reopen.
  • Stores may be open on Sun­days.
  • All restau­rants may reopen from 06:00 until 23:00. A max­i­mum of 4 peo­ple can sit at one table.
  • The night­time cur­few will be lift­ed.
  • Alco­hol may be con­sumed in pub­lic.
  • Muse­ums and gal­leries may reopen with one quar­ter of their capac­i­ty.
  • Libraries may reopen.
  • It is now pos­si­ble to play ama­teur sports indoors with a max­i­mum of 10 peo­ple in the room. It is nec­es­sary to wear a face mask.
  • Church ser­vices may be attend­ed by a larg­er num­ber of peo­ple, depend­ing on the capac­i­ty of the church (15 m2/person).

Updat­ed Novem­ber 23rd

The state of emer­gency is extend­ed until Decem­ber 12th 2020.

As of today, cer­tain gov­ern­ment pan­dem­ic mea­sures will be relaxed.

Cur­rent mea­sures in force:

  • Night­time cur­few from 23:00 until 04:59.
  • Gath­er­ings of up to 6 peo­ple allowed.
  • Open­ing hours of stores (with basic neces­si­ties) and take­away win­dows in restau­rants can be extend­ed until 23:00.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of drink­ing alco­hol in pub­lic.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of sales on Sun­days and pub­lic hol­i­days.
  • Stores with weapons and ammu­ni­tion can now be open.
  • Funer­als, wed­dings and church ser­vices can now be attend­ed by up to 20 peo­ple.
  • The­atre per­for­mances and con­certs can take place with­out the pres­ence of spec­ta­tors.
  • Libraries can lend books through a pick­up win­dow.
  • Dri­ving schools can orga­nize the­o­ry and prac­ti­cal final tests.

Stu­dents of the last year of sec­ondary schools will return to school on Novem­ber 25th, 2020.
From Novem­ber 30th, 9th-grade pri­ma­ry school stu­dents, 1st-5th grade pri­ma­ry school stu­dents, and 6th-9th grade pri­ma­ry school stu­dents will return to schools. 6th-9th grade ele­men­tary school stu­dents (except 9th-grade stu­dents) will take turns at school after a week.

Updat­ed Novem­ber 18th

With effect from Novem­ber 18th:

  • restric­tion on the num­ber of cus­tomers inside stores. Stores must allow at least 15 square meters per per­son. It is pos­si­ble that there will be queues in front of the stores,
  • stores can be open until 21:00,
  • take­away win­dows in restau­rants and cater­ing facil­i­ties can be new­ly opened from 5:00 to 21:00,
  • from today, dog and cat salons can be open,
  • a max­i­mum of 15 peo­ple may attend wed­dings and funer­als,
  • it is allowed to play sports on out­door sports grounds for a max­i­mum of two peo­ple.

 

Updat­ed Novem­ber 12th, 2020

On Novem­ber 18th, first and sec­ond-grade stu­dents of pri­ma­ry school and stu­dents of spe­cial schools through­out the Czech Repub­lic will return to school. Teach­ing will take place under strict epi­demi­o­log­i­cal mea­sures. (More details can be found here: https://koronavirus.edu.cz/files/informace-k-provozu-skol-a-skolskych-zarizeni-od-18–11-2020.pdf)

For­eign nation­als whose work visa has expired (short-term visa for the pur­pose of employ­ment, short-term visa for the pur­pose of sea­son­al work, visa for a stay of over 90 days for the pur­pose of sea­son­al work, or spe­cial work visa) between March 12th and Novem­ber 16th, 2020, must depart the Czech Repub­lic no lat­er than Novem­ber 16th, 2020. This dead­line will not be extend­ed.

Updat­ed Novem­ber 6th, 2020

As of Mon­day, Novem­ber 9th, 2020, a new mea­sure reg­u­lat­ing the entry of per­sons to the Czech Repub­lic will be in force. The con­se­quent mea­sures and restric­tions are applic­a­ble both to the Czech cit­i­zens return­ing to the Czech Repub­lic and to all for­eign nation­als.

Coun­tries will be divid­ed into three cat­e­gories: green, orange and red. The list will be defined by a notice of the Min­istry of Health here.

Red — trav­ellers from these coun­tries must fill in the Pub­lic Health Pas­sen­ger Loca­tor Form before enter­ing the Czech Repub­lic and under­go the PCR test or quar­an­tine after the entry.

Orange — trav­ellers from these coun­tries may enter with­out the oblig­a­tion to fill in the Pub­lic Health Pas­sen­ger Loca­tor Form. Those for­eign nation­als trav­el­ling to the Czech Repub­lic for the pur­pose of work­ing or study­ing will be oblig­ed to sub­mit a neg­a­tive PCR test result before enter­ing the work­place or the edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tion in the Czech Repub­lic. This applies only to for­eign nation­als.

Green — trav­ellers from these coun­tries may enter with­out the oblig­a­tion to fill in the Pub­lic Health Pas­sen­ger Loca­tor Form and with­out the oblig­a­tion to under­go the PCR test or quar­an­tine.

Detailed scheme:

Source and more infor­ma­tion can be found here: www.mvcr.cz/mvcren/article/conditions-for-entry-to-the-czech-republic-valid-from-november-9th

Scheme with the con­di­tions for entry can be found here: www.mvcr.cz/Cestovani

 

Updat­ed Novem­ber 1st, 2020

State of emer­gency extend­ed until 20th Novem­ber 2020.

Updat­ed Octo­ber 27th, 2020

With effect from 28th Octo­ber 2020:

  • going out dur­ing night­time hours between 21:00 – 04:59 is banned (excep­tions: trav­el­ling to work, han­dling an emer­gency sit­u­a­tion, health pro­tec­tion, sup­ply, pro­vi­sion of health or social care, walk­ing a dog with­in 500 meters from the place of res­i­dence, …)
  • restric­tions on free move­ment between 05:00 – 20:59 (excep­tions: trav­el­ling to work, nec­es­sary fam­i­ly or close rel­a­tives vis­its, pur­chase of essen­tial goods, trav­el­ling to med­ical facil­i­ties or offices, walks in nature, wed­dings and funer­als up to 10 peo­ple)
  • the gov­ern­ment orders work from home if pos­si­ble
  • farmer’s mar­kets and stalls are pro­hib­it­ed (Does not apply to local­ly pro­duced prod­ucts)
  • con­sump­tion of prod­ucts in the mar­ket area is pro­hib­it­ed
  • retail shops must be closed on Sun­days com­plete­ly, on week­days and Sat­ur­days between 20:00 – 05:00 (excep­tions: petrol sta­tions, phar­ma­cies, air­port and rail­way sta­tion shops, shops in med­ical facil­i­ties)

Updat­ed Octo­ber 21st

With effect from 22nd Octo­ber 6 AM:

  • Restric­tions on free move­ment and con­tact with oth­er peo­ple with the excep­tion of essen­tial trips such as for work or med­ical vis­its, nec­es­sary fam­i­ly vis­its or to make essen­tial pur­chas­es. Walks in nature are allowed for a max­i­mum of 2 peo­ple.
  • Clo­sure of shops and restric­tions on ser­vices with the excep­tion of gro­cery stores, drug­stores, phar­ma­cies, ani­mal feed retail­ers, opti­cians and sim­i­lar shops, news­pa­pers and mag­a­zine retail­ers, retail­ers of tobac­co prod­ucts, and oth­er select­ed estab­lish­ments. (more at www.vlada.cz)
  • Major restric­tions on the open­ing hours of offices. (to be spec­i­fied)

Source: ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/koronavirus/zive-brifink-po-jednani-vlady-o-dalsich-opatrenich-proti-sireni

Updat­ed Octo­ber 20th

With effect from 21st Octo­ber:

  • Face masks are oblig­a­tory in out­door loca­tions where it is not pos­si­ble to keep a dis­tance of two meters from oth­ers.
  • Face masks are also oblig­a­tory in cars unless the dri­ver is alone or accom­pa­nied by his fam­i­ly mem­bers.

Updat­ed Octo­ber 19th

The Gov­ern­ment of the Czech Repub­lic allows for­eign work­ers to change employ­er or job posi­tion dur­ing a state of emer­gency more quick­ly. This applies in case the new employ­er is involved in the imple­men­ta­tion of cri­sis mea­sures (e.g. activ­i­ties in the field of health care, pro­duc­tion of pro­tec­tive equip­ment, etc.). In such cas­es, the hold­ers of employ­ee cards or blue cards can change employ­er even soon­er than after 6 months and it will be suf­fi­cient to noti­fy the Min­istry of the Inte­ri­or (MOI) about the change on the first day of employ­ment.

Updat­ed Octo­ber 13th

With effect from 13th Octo­ber:

  • it is nec­es­sary to wear a face mask at pub­lic trans­port stops and plat­forms.

With effect from 14th Octo­ber:

  • all restau­rants, bars, clubs and pubs have to be closed. The take­away win­dows are allowed and they must close at 20:00. (excep­tions are set by the gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions)
  • it is not allowed to meet in groups of more than six peo­ple. (excep­tions are set by the gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions)
  • drink­ing alco­hol in pub­lic is banned.
  • pri­ma­ry, sec­ondary, high­er voca­tion­al schools and uni­ver­si­ties will switch to dis­tance learn­ing. 

Source: www.vlada.cz/cz/media-centrum/aktualne/vlada-od-stredy-zprisni-preventivni-opatreni–posle-ochranne-pomucky-invalidnim-duchodcum

Updat­ed Octo­ber 9th

With effect from 9th Octo­ber 2020, the fol­low­ing facil­i­ties have to be closed:

  • all indoor sports grounds
  • swim­ming pools
  • well­ness
  • sauna
  • zoo
  • casi­nos

With effect from 9th Octo­ber 2020, the gov­ern­ment pro­hibits:

  • vis­its in med­ical facil­i­ties (excep­tions are pro­vid­ed by the gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions)
  • vis­its in social ser­vices facil­i­ties (excep­tions are pro­vid­ed by the gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions)

Restau­rants, clubs, dis­cos and sim­i­lar busi­ness have to close at 20:00.

With effect from 12th Octo­ber, the gov­ern­ment pro­hibits:

  • all indoor events with more than 10 par­tic­i­pants (excep­tions are set by gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tion)
  • all out­door events with more than 20 par­tic­i­pants (excep­tions are pro­vid­ed by gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions)
  • all con­certs, the­atres, cin­e­mas and cir­cus­es
  • con­gress­es and fairs
  • all sports com­pe­ti­tions

With effect from 12th Octo­ber, only indi­vid­ual con­sul­ta­tions and prac­ti­cal teach­ing and prac­tice at sec­ondary schools and uni­ver­si­ties are allowed. The ban does not apply to first grade of ele­men­tary edu­ca­tion, but pupils in the sec­ond grade of ele­men­tary schools will have a spe­cial half online/ half pres­ence edu­ca­tion. 

Updat­ed Octo­ber 5th

With effect from Octo­ber 5th 2020, a state of emer­gency has been declared for the entire ter­ri­to­ry of the Czech Repub­lic.

From 5th to 18th Octo­ber, the fol­low­ing rules apply:

  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of mass gath­er­ings with more than 10 peo­ple indoors or 20 peo­ple out­doors.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of singing per­for­mances and con­certs.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of the per­son­al pres­ence of stu­dents at sec­ondary, high­er voca­tion­al, pri­ma­ry art, lan­guage schools and uni­ver­si­ties in the South Mora­vian Region.
  • Pro­hi­bi­tion of spec­ta­tors’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in sports events orga­nized by sports asso­ci­a­tions.
  • A max­i­mum of 6 peo­ple at one table is allowed in cater­ing estab­lish­ments (restau­rants, pubs, can­teens, bars, etc.)
  • There can be only as many peo­ple present at the church ser­vices as there are seats avail­able, with a lim­it up to 100 peo­ple. Singing will be pro­hib­it­ed.

 

Updat­ed Sep­tem­ber 21st

Cur­rent infor­ma­tion from the web­sites of the Min­istry of the Inte­ri­or of the Czech Repub­lic and the Min­istry of Health of the Czech Repub­lic

Effec­tive from Sep­tem­ber 21st, 2020 all per­sons trav­el­ling from coun­tries that are not on the list of the coun­tries with a low risk of con­ta­gion have the oblig­a­tion to con­tact the region­al hygien­ic sta­tion accord­ing to the place of stay before their arrival. The elec­tron­ic form is avail­able here: Pub­lic Health Pas­sen­ger Loca­tor Form. 

List of coun­tries with a low risk of infec­tion: koronavirus.mzcr.cz/seznam-zemi-podle-miry-rizika-nakazy

It will also be pos­si­ble to sub­mit a PCR test result that was issued by anoth­er EU mem­ber coun­try. This doc­u­ment has to be deliv­ered to the hygien­ic sta­tion imme­di­ate­ly after arrival and can­not be old­er than 72 hours. This rule applies to Czech cit­i­zens, EU cit­i­zens and third-coun­try nation­als with a long-term or per­ma­nent res­i­dence per­mit in the Czech Repub­lic or oth­er EU coun­try.
Third-coun­try nation­als with a proven long-last­ing rela­tion­ship with the EU cit­i­zen (who must have a cer­tifi­cate of tem­po­rary res­i­dence or per­ma­nent res­i­dence per­mit in CZE) will be allowed to enter the CZE. For obtain­ing autho­ri­sa­tion of the Min­istry of For­eign affairs it is nec­es­sary to sub­mit a dec­la­ra­tion of hon­our of part­ner­ship down­load here.
Long-last­ing rela­tion­ships and the entrance to the coun­try – More infor­ma­tion on the web­site of MZČR.